美国国家公共电台 NPR--Are you sleepy, hungry or maybe both? Here's a side hustle for you

Are you sleepy, hungry or maybe both? Here's a side hustle¹ for you

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Mattress³ review website Sleep Junkie will pay five volunteers $1,000 each to eat cheese snacks before bedtime. A study is looking into whether eating cheese before bed leads to nightmares.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Leila Fadel.

Are you sleepy, hungry or maybe both? Have we got the job for you. Mattress review website Sleep Junkie will pay five volunteers $1,000 each to eat cheese snacks before going to sleep. The site says the dairy dreamers will help figure out if there's a connection between eating cheese before bed and having nightmares. The sleep study will last three months. And yes, the cheese is free.

It's MORNING EDITION.

1 hustle   

v.推搡；竭力兜售或获取；催促；n.奔忙(碌)

参考例句：

• It seems that he enjoys the hustle and bustle of life in the big city.看起来他似乎很喜欢大城市的热闹繁忙的生活。
• I had to hustle through the crowded street.我不得不挤过拥挤的街道。

2 transcript   

n.抄本，誊本，副本，肄业证书

参考例句：

• A transcript of the tapes was presented as evidence in court.一份录音带的文字本作为证据被呈交法庭。
• They wouldn't let me have a transcript of the interview.他们拒绝给我一份采访的文字整理稿。

3 mattress   

n.床垫，床褥

参考例句：

• The straw mattress needs to be aired.草垫子该晾一晾了。
• The new mattress I bought sags in the middle.我买的新床垫中间陷了下去。